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EveryAction offers a best-in-class Digital, Fundraising and Organizing SaaS products, with a unified customer relationship management (CRM) platform that is able to effectively serve large and small nonprofits, as well as campaigns through its NGP VAN brand.

Referring back to my initial blog , I am completing a series that outlines the various levels of prospect management we encounter with our clients. FYI – Clients who have a well oiled prospect management system typically meet weekly or bi-weekly.

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Each year, The Community Roundtable publishes survey research, The State of Community Management , that examines the growth of and changes in online community and community management. They invest in management, but their instincts are to squelch dissent.

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